I Won't Insist Quotes

#1. Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.

Meir Soloveichik

#2. Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

Reggie Jackson

#3. Leo," Amelia asked suspiciously, "what are you planning to do to her?" "Why do you always insist on asking questions when you know you won't like the answers?" "Because, being an optimist," she said tartly, "I always hope I'm wrong."
- Amelia & Leo

Lisa Kleypas

#4. One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#5. I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Gene Robinson

#6. People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

Ethan Zuckerman

#7. If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. There are forces of nature and circumstance that are beyond our control, let alone our understanding, and to insist on victory in the face of this, to accept nothing less, is just asking for a soul-pummeling. The simple truth is, not every fight can be won.

Elyn R. Saks

#10. What do you want from me, Snow?"
"Nothing," he says. And he means it, the actual bastard.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Umberto Eco

#12. As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Dee Dee Myers

#13. I wanted to talk," he said.
"I don't want to talk," said Jared. "And I won't want to talk. Ever."
"Can we just - "
"Talk?" Jared asked. "All right, if you insist. Let's talk about the many definitions of the word no.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#14. See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

Guy Finley

#15. Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

Thomas Nagel

#16. Every experience lays the foundation for the ultimate success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Fine. If you insist.
I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But
I won't enjoy it.

Lee Wardlaw

#18. In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

Rick Santorum

#19. Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth - yea, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning! A

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Aaron Sorkin

#21. I believe that every person is born with talent.

Maya Angelou

#22. I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

Charles De Lint

#23. One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

Len G. Murray